http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/16/MN118697.DTL

Alleged Cuban torturer's trial puts spotlight on U.S. policy

John-Thor Dalhburg, LA Times

SF Chronicle 11.16.01

According to Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., such unsavory neighbors are far more numerous than most Americans realize.

"Currently, the United States is home to many immigrants who have fled torture, terror or war crimes in their home country," Foley said. "What many people do not know is that often, the torturers also come to live here in America. These torturers are terrorists in their countries and could bring that terror to America."

According to Foley's office, America is the adopted home of, among others, Nikola Vuckovic, a former Bosnian Serb concentration camp guard accused of beating and torturing Muslim prisoners; Juan Lopez Grijalva, former head of the Honduran secret police wanted in his homeland for the 1982 death-squad executions of leftists; Kelbessa Negewo, a former Ethiopian security official who oversaw the torture and execution of political prisoners in 1978; and Alvaro Rafael Saravia Marino, who has been identified as a key suspect in the murder of Oscar Amulfo Romero, archbishop of El Salvador.